HSBC Sites Knocked Offline in 'Large Scale' DoS Attack

Websites belonging to British bank and financial services company HSBC are back online today after reportedly experiencing a denial of service DoS attack. The attack, which lasted approximately 10 hours last night, was deemed a “large scale denial of service attack” by the company. “On 18 October...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2558-1 (bacula)

The remote host is missing an update to bacula announced via advisory DSA 2558-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb25581.nasl 6612 2017-07-07 12:08:03Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2558-1 bacula Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2012 E-Soft Inc...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2558-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CVE-2012-4430

The dumpresource function in dird/dirdconf.c in Bacula before 5.2.11 does not properly enforce ACL rules, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain resource dump information via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2012-4430

The dumpresource function in dird/dirdconf.c in Bacula before 5.2.11 does not properly enforce ACL rules, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain resource dump information via unspecified vectors...

Using the Internet to Catch Traditional (Non-cyber) Criminals

It can happen to anyone…and when it does it usually catches everybody – the victim and his relatives – completely unprepared. I’m talking about kidnapping. Twice in my life I’ve been involved in helping the police track down and arrest gangs of kidnappers. The first case didn’t directly affect me...

bacula restriction bypass

ACLs are not enforced properly...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2558-1] bacula security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2558-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Raphael Geissert October 08, 2012 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid 2.2 security update

Updated Grid component packages that fix several security issues, add various enhancements and fix multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common...

Grum Botnet Attempts Another Comeback, Fails Again

The Grum botnet, which Dutch authorities and security researchers knocked offline earlier this summer, made a second, unsuccessful attempt at a comeback over the weekend when the bot herders stood up two new command-and-control servers in Turkey. The revival was short-lived however, and both C&Cs...

AIX NFSv4 vulnerability

IBM SECURITY ADVISORY First Issued: Thu Sept 13 13:43:29 CDT 2012 | Updated: Wed Sept 26 13:25:50 CDT 2012 | Updated: Removed the cve.mitre.org reference | Updated: Thu Dec 12 12:55:11 CST 2013 | Update: 1. Added KEYs for parsing purposes | 2. Moved to OpenSSL signature The most recent version of...

Ezylog Photovoltaic Management Server - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Ezylog Photovoltaic Management Server - Multiple Vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities in Ezylog photovoltaic management server ================================================================= ADVISORY INFORMATION Title: Multiple vulnerabilities in Ezylog photovoltaic management server...

CVE-2012-4737

channels/chaniax2.c in Asterisk Open Source 1.8.x before 1.8.15.1 and 10.x before 10.7.1, Certified Asterisk 1.8.11 before 1.8.11-cert7, Asterisk Digiumphones 10.x.x-digiumphones before 10.7.1-digiumphones, and Asterisk Business Edition C.3.x before C.3.7.6 does not enforce ACL rules during certa...

Team GhostShell leak One Million Records

TeamGhostShell a team linked with the Activist group Anonymous, is claiming that they have hacked some major U.S. institutions including major banking institutions, accounts of politicians and has posted those details online. The dumps comprising of millions of accounts has been let loose on the...

ocPortal CMS 8.x Session Hijacking

OVERVIEW ocPoral CMS 8.x and lower versions are vulnerable to Session Hijacking flaw which could allow attackers to compromise administrator session. 2. PRODUCT DESCRIPTION ocPortal is the website Content Management System a CMS for building and maintaining a dynamic website. ocPortal's powerful...

Your Friend can help Investigators to Access your Facebook Profile

If you're not already particularly picky about who you friend on Facebook, you might want to think about rejiggering those privacy settings. It's not the backdoor access that the FBI has been pushing for, but US District Judge William Pauley III has now ruled that it and other law enforcement...

Cyber Security Alliance Launches Trend Spotting Project

A new international cyber security alliance announced plans to put the Continents best heads together to try to envision future cyber security trends. The International Cyber Security Protection Alliance ICSPA, a British organization that helps support law enforcement cyber crime units, announced...

Wireless Carriers See Spike in Cell Phone Records Requests

Some of the nation’s largest wireless carriers say they last year collectively received some 1.3 million requests from law enforcement for customers’ phone records – a number that continues to rise. The information shared with police includes geolocation information, content of text messages,...

Twitter Transparency Report Shows Huge Interest From U.S. Law Enforcement

Privacy advocates and security experts often warn users about the consequences of handing over so much of their personal data to Web sites or social networks, saying that they never know how it’s going to be used or sold. But it’s rare that users ever see examples of that in action. Twitter is...

Citadel Malware Crew May Be Taking Its Wares Off the Market

It turns out that malware authors–at least some of them–may have an interest in economics. Perhaps worried about market saturation or commoditization, the distributors of the Citadel malware, which has been used to deliver ransomware in the past, are apparently about to take their creation off th...